Punishment is coming:

For several days, I follow this new fad created by Hive account@randowhale. You send 2SBD to his account and you get a random vote between 1% and 50% for a post you send in the memo as URL. Interesting idea.

I tested this for several occasions randomly to deserving, nondeserving, noobs, stars, big payout and low payout posts. It works as desired. You get a vote for the indicated URL. I was lucky for those I chose. Most got 40%+ votes. So it was a good deal in a way. Although, you won´t get your money back and will be ignored, if you want to promote something that already has an upvote ( I tested that, too )

Let's think about the background for a while:

Steempower holders get curation rewards for using their power to upvote. The idea is, to find good content, upvote it and find content that is good for the community and will raise the quality of Steemit for all of us. What randowhale is doing is the following:

He optimizes his curation rewards. Getting 2 Steem or 2 SBD for himself added to the curation rewards he is getting additionally. Pretty opportunistic, but very smart at the same time. It's a pitty that he seems to care more about the money than about the content, but who really cares. I wish he would care more about the content than about the money, but I can't blame him.... no punishment for him.

BUT:

Randowhale gave us a tool and it always depends on how a tool is used if it is good or if it is bad. While testing, it barely came to my mind to use it for myself. But while checking the randowhale uses I see almost everyone using it for themselves...

GREEDY LITTLE BASTARDS! You rape the reward pool for your unimportant self-rightous crap.

I hope that this randowhale project is kind of a honeypot created by Hive account@berniesanders / Hive account@engagement to find out all you greedy little ones, to flag you down into oblivion with his full power, when the time is over to counteract the flag.

Conclusion

1. Those of you using randowhale for yourselves... adjust your moral compass or you will burn in hell!
2. For those who use randowhale to tip others in a way that their own power is not able to: Choose wisely high payout posts. THX for what you are doing. This makes Steemit a better place.
3. Check if the URL you want to promote already has an upvote, else you loose your money.

PS:

I also found a quite funny adaption of randowhale. I count that as sarkasm but I fear that bigger bot-army holders totally corrupt the genius idea of steemit in this way: Randominnow

And finally this one, which seems to be a pure scam: https://steemit.com/@randomwhale

You have been warned.

Back to a world of killers. Rapists. Psychos. Perverts. A brand new evil every minute, spewed out as fast as men can think them up. A world where pitching a criminal dwarf off a skyscraper to tell his fellow scum you're back is a sane and rational act. The angels thought it would be hell for me. But they were wrong.